In Joshua Sofaer’s latest Artist as leader interview for a-n, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell’s seven-year tenure as ‘Visionaire’ at AIT software company. Here, Layzell writes about what came next and the continued relevance of his experience in industry a decade on.
The annual Publish and Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for the second year at ICA, London, on Saturday.
I am starting to get that ‘itchy’ feeling that I get when it has been too long without getting my hands dirty with the actual making of art. I thought that this week, being half term at my language school, […]
A week in reciprocity, part one: 1. “Slavery never ended in the nineteenth century, it was merely re-branded and marketed to us in a different packet. The monetary economy doesn’t serve us, we serve it” Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Manifesto”.I […]
Prizewinners announced during one-night event at Leeds’ Ellington House.
The latest interview in Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as leader series for a-n features Sydney-based artist-run initiative First Draft.
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is encouraging ‘user-generated’ content via its CG Associates scheme, which includes the Launch Pad series of short exhibitions. We find out more from artist Maurice Carlin and the gallery’s Deputy Director Clarissa Corfe.
With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.
The Royal Standard, Liverpool’s renowned artist-led studios and gallery, is facing a brighter future after resolving – for now – the rates relief issue that threatened its existence.
Summit Gallery is a new artist-led gallery and project space overlooking the Olympic Park in Hackney Wick. We talk to Director Natalie Sanders and the project’s first artist-in-residence Riccardo Iacono.
A week after announcing the closure of Cardiff-based contemporary art agency Mermaid & Monster, its Director takes a close look at the art ecology of Wales and finds plenty to be concerned about.
In the light of Arts Council England’s recent capital grants announcement, Alistair Gentry asks when investment in the work of new, financially strapped artists will be given the same priority.
The Cardiff-based contemporary art agency has announced that it will no longer be representing artists, citing the shrinking market for smaller, regional galleries as a factor.
Besides the desktop drudgery, I have been having fun up at the London Art Fair with Joanna Jones where DAD has a presence, by invitation, as part of ALISN’s SUBLET project http://www.alisn.org/SUBLET-London-Art-Fair. We had fantastic footfall and almost non-stop enjoyable […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #20 When referring to the need to be more creative within urban planning, Landry and Bianchini[1] have talked about the need for those concerned to find “new ways of talking” in which normal routes and networks are […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #21 This [audiences approach] suggests that neighbours and people from the community who already knew the artists may have used the opportunity to develop their relationship with local artists further.[1] The case studies also show that the […]
Museums Sheffield, the charitable Trust responsible for three of the city’s museums and galleries, is facing a £200,000 reduction to its annual grant as the City Council is tasked to find £50m in savings.
Wondering what 2013 has in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a look ahead to provide a snapshot of things we think are worth noting in your diary.
a-n Director Susan Jones visited DIY Art School in Manchester where the focus is on collaboration and research.
Various locations, Stoke-on-Trent
2 November – 22 December 2012
The venerable London Art Fair is playing host to some interesting interventions in its Art Projects strand, enabling unrepresented artists to get a piece of the art fair action. We look at some of the methodologies being employed and test the temperature of the art market in 2013.
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #18 A ‘life-style’ philosophy is apparent in the aspirations of many of the artists’ groups which have been studied: “to provide opportunities for the public to become involved in the arts by meeting artists in their studios, […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #19 Because they are not primarily concerned with business values or running their organisations in ways which mirror the way mainstream institutions operate, artist-led organisations may not show a willingness to fulfil the range of expectations and […]
